Bowen

Defendant and appellant Rowdy Wayne Bowen appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court of San Francisco County entered after his motion to suppress evidence pursuant to Penal Code section 1538.5 was denied and he pled guilty to a violation of Penal Code section 211 (robbery) and was sentenced to the midterm of three years and committed to the California Youth Authority to serve his term pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 1731.5. Appellant contends on appeal that (1) his detention until the arrival of the victim of the robbery for identification amounted to an arrest without probable cause; (2) after the victim failed to identify him there was no probable cause for his arrest; and (3) the trial court failed to adequately state reasons for denying probation.

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San Francisco Police Officer Reno Rapagnani was on routine patrol with his partner Jeremiah Morgan in a marked patrol car on May 25, 1985. Around 12:40 p.m. the officers heard a report on the police radio of a purse snatch in the Stockton Street Tunnel and went to that area to look for suspects. Officer Rapagnani remembered that the initial report that he received stated that the White female…